5. Fernando Simón comments on the main data and little else. Chief of the Defence Staff extends his condolences to the families of the dead and announces 2,900 troops have been deployed to more than 130 locations around Spain.
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 12:10 pm | On Twitter

9. Fernando Simón: "We might be with the curve going down already […] the peak is no longer so important".
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 12:35 pm | On Twitter

10. Watch out for the political tone during the debate in Congress at 3 p.m. Today's new Coronavirus figures for Spain are shocking. Will there be loyalty and support for govt. or anger and tension? How will Spaniards react on their balconies? What will doctors and nurses say?
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 12:38 pm | On Twitter

17. Fernando Simón: "We might be with the curve going down already […] the peak is no longer so important". I don't know which curve they are looking at in the Prime Minister's office.
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 2:10 pm | On Twitter

18. EFE: twice the number of temporary lay-off applications have been filed in Murcia due to Coronavirus than in the whole period from 2009-2019. More than 5,000 in ten days.
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 4:11 pm | On Twitter

19. "A female doctor from the health center in the town of La Fuente de San Esteban, Salamanca, died…" yesterday with Coronavirus. Alone, at home. https://bit.ly/2UEc10v
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 4:22 pm | On Twitter

20. "On Wednesday, Córdoba registered the first death of a doctor due to coronavirus". Manuel Barragán Solís, a GP. The secretary of the Andalusia Medical Union in the province said: "We are being sent to the slaughterhouse". https://bit.ly/2vTbrni
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 4:28 pm | On Twitter

24. Police and Civil Guard unions file complaint about lack of Coronavirus protective equipment for officers in Spain and will begin legal action, "after verifying masks and gloves are not provided" to officers "or that they are PREVENTED from using those obtained themselves".
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 6:45 pm | On Twitter

27. Two other Spanish police unions, JUPOL and JUCIL, have also filed complaints about the lack of Coronavirus protection equipment for National Police and Civil Guard officers in this national emergency, "a flagrant breach of the 31/1995 Prevention of Occupational Risks Act".
Published: Mar 25, 2020, 8:46 pm | On Twitter

33. So, at the close of this chronicle for tonight, now after midnight, some MPs and the Prime Minister continue on with their monologues about the extension of the Coronavirus state of alarm in Spain in parliament. More tomorrow. Thank you for reading today.
Published: Mar 26, 2020, 12:23 am | On Twitter

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